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solardecathlon.gov

Solar Decathlon

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

809 ms

Page Rendered

297 ms

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About Website

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The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition of 10 contests that challenge student teams to design and build full-size, solar-powered houses. The winner of the competition...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solardecathlon.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solardecathlon.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.solardecathlon.gov

34 ms

bootstrap.min.css

14 ms

flexslider.min.css

7 ms

styles.css

23 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Solardecathlon.gov, 15% (10 requests) were made to Farm1.static.flickr.com and 15% (10 requests) were made to Farm6.static.flickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (455 ms) relates to the external source Prod.solardecathlon.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 697.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Solardecathlon.gov main page is 3.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 5.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.6 kB, which is 31% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 26.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Solar Decathlon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 302.4 kB

  • Original 484.9 kB
  • After minification 472.2 kB
  • After compression 182.5 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 302.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 357.2 kB

  • Original 430.5 kB
  • After minification 421.1 kB
  • After compression 73.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Solardecathlon.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 357.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (45%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Decathlon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

solardecathlon.gov SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Solardecathlon.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Solardecathlon.gov main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Solar Decathlon. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: